Breakthrough Prize Foundation Establishes $100 Million Tech for Refugees Effort

Here are notable new grant awards compiled by the Chronicle:

Breakthrough Prize Foundation

$100 million to establish the Tech for Refugees Initiative, which will use innovative technology to improve the delivery of humanitarian aid to refugees around the world.

With support from Airbnb.org, Flexport.org, and Spotify, the program will begin with assisting civilians who are fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Rockefeller Foundation

$55 million over two years to vaccinate 90 percent of the people at highest risk for Covid-19 in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean through the foundation’s new Global Vaccination Initiative.

Lilly Endowment

$25 million to the Central Indiana Community Foundation to expand and enhance pedestrian and bicycle trails in Indiana’s Marion County.

(The Lilly Endowment is a financial supporter of the Chronicle.)

Open Society Foundations

$20 million to the International Crisis Group to create an Innovation Hub within its Future of Conflict Program, which will support postdoctoral fellows who specialize in studying and analyzing remote warfare, food insecurity, and pandemics.

James Irvine Foundation

$15 million to the Center at Sierra Health Foundation to establish the Community Economic Mobilization Initiative, which is designed to help community-based organizations access funding for sustainable and inclusive economic-development efforts.

William A. Looney Family Foundation

$15 million to Lutheran Community Services Northwest to expand its Santa for Seniors program from Washington to other states in the Pacific Northwest, with a goal of delivering holiday gifts and visits to 100,000 homebound older people over the next 10 years.

X Prize and the Musk Foundation

$15 million to 15 teams in the X Prize Carbon Removal competition. Each of the 15 teams has received cash awards of $1 million to recognize their efforts to fight climate change and remove carbon from the atmosphere.

The overall winners in this competition will be awarded an additional $80 million in 2025.

Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation

$10 million to Unicef for its emergency response in Ukraine and neighboring countries to support vulnerable refugee children and families.

HCA Florida Healthcare

$1.5 million to Florida International University’s Nicole Wertheim College of Nursing and Health Sciences to recruit registered nurses to teach through its nurse-educator programs.

MAC Cosmetics

$1.5 million over two years to Unicef to help mothers and children access programs in HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support in Brazil, China, Ethiopia, South Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa, with particular emphasis on aiding members of the LGBTIQ+ community.

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation

$1.4 million to 15 organizations that help youths with disabilities receive job training and find fulfilling employment.

The foundation is also matching up to $100,000 of donations from Mitsubishi Electric employees to Direct Relief, Save the Children, and World Central Kitchen for their humanitarian-aid efforts in Ukraine.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

$1.3 million over two years to Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to create the Southwest Health Reporting and Communications Initiative, which will employ a public-relations campaign, community-education outreach, and digital-marketing strategies in both English and Spanish to address health disparities in the region.

Global Fund for Children

$1 million in emergency grants to 28 local organizations in Ukraine that are providing humanitarian aid and critical services to children and families, and eight organizations in Italy, Moldova, and Romania that are supporting Ukrainian refugees.

Mat-Su Health Foundation

$1 million to eight nonprofit organizations that deliver services to improve the health and wellness of people in Alaska.

New Grant Opportunities

The Smidt Foundation is accepting applications for grants through its Harbor Freight Tools for Schools program. This year, the foundation will give $1.25 million in cash prizes to 20 public high schools that offer classes in the skilled trades. Applications are due May 20.

Morgan Stanley is calling for applications for the Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children’s Mental Health Innovation Awards, which will make a total of $500,000 in grants to enhance mental-health-care solutions for children and young adults across the United States. Charities that advance pediatric mental wellness or address stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental-health issues in children and teenagers are eligible to apply. Projects should focus on reducing stigma, increasing access to care, improving equity, enabling prevention, and enhancing intervention in children’s mental health. Applications are due July 15.

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